“Essentially, the brain loses its ability to regulate emotions effectively, making us more irritable, anxious, or prone to ...

The characteristic eye movements that give rapid eye movement (REM) sleep its name represent gaze shifts in the dream world of sleeping mice, according to a new study. The findings reveal an ...

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep brings about brief but periodic awakenings. In 1966, Dr. Frederick Snyder reported the "sentinel" function of REM could help animals prepare a fight or flight response ...

REM is the sleep cycle stage when dreaming occurs. Rapid eye movement "dream sleep" occurs cyclically about every 90 minutes in between the other "dreamless" stages of non-REM (NREM) sleep. Source: ...

Nearly 8% of the general population experiences sleep paralysis, but people are unaware that REM sleep disruptions can create ...

Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep arousal disorders involve repeated episodes of incomplete awakening from sleep, most commonly sleepwalking or night terrors (also known as sleep terrors), but ...

Have you ever wondered what animals dream about? When mice slumber, their rapid eye movements reflect the imagined movements of their heads in their dreams. If the same is true for humans, researchers ...